… sound measure has emerged. In the present research, we sought to develop a reliable and
valid measure of authoritarian (A-God) and benevolent (B-God) representations. Our goal …

… both authoritarian and benevolent God representations. We hypothesized that these two …
data were computed for each of the measured God representations, beliefs about self and the …

… these three dimensions to Johnson et al.’s (2015) A/B Scale in … authoritarian God representation
to be a positive predictor of political conservatism and a benevolent God representation …

… of three representations of God: (1) God as an authoritarian … using Mplus (Muth�n and Muth�n
2015) to test our hypotheses … measurement model including the self-transcendence, God …

… being is God (whether referred to as GD, Allah, Vishnu, Lord, or … , that benevolent and
authoritarian God representations are not … of 73 measures of God concepts, God images, and God …

… these representations differ or even contradict each other (Johnson, Okun, & Cohen, 2015;
… concepts separately using MLM (that takes the nonindependence of repeated measures …

… to study god concepts and the benevolent or authoritarian … studies to measure how
authoritarian and benevolent god … (Johnson, Okun, & Cohen, 2015) and how god concepts can …

… by literalism and authoritarian God representations. Our … on the benevolent rather than the
punishing attributes of God). As … Thus, we combined the three items into a single measure of …

… do good things, good things will happen to us—that our good … , because it is a corrective
measure that kicks in after some… the dark: ‘It seems like the Good Lord is hiding, but he’s here. …

… the relationships between benevolent and authoritarian God representations, attachment
to … the God representations measure we utilize in this study (Johnson et al., Citation2015). …